Recent structural insights into the mechanism of ClpP protease regulation by AAA+ chaperones and small molecules

MF Mabanglo, WA Houry - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
ClpP is a highly conserved serine protease that is a critical enzyme in maintaining protein
homeostasis and is an important drug target in pathogenic bacteria and various cancers. In …

High-speed atomic force microscopy for filming protein molecules in dynamic action

T Ando, S Fukuda, KX Ngo… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Structural biology is currently undergoing a transformation into dynamic structural biology,
which reveals the dynamic structure of proteins during their functional activity to better …

Processive extrusion of polypeptide loops by a Hsp100 disaggregase

MJ Avellaneda, KB Franke, V Sunderlikova, B Bukau… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The ability to reverse protein aggregation is vital to cells,. Hsp100 disaggregases such as
ClpB and Hsp104 are proposed to catalyse this reaction by translocating polypeptide loops …

HAX1-dependent control of mitochondrial proteostasis governs neutrophil granulocyte differentiation

Y Fan, M Murgia, MI Linder… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The relevance of molecular mechanisms governing mitochondrial proteostasis to the
differentiation and function of hematopoietic and immune cells is largely elusive. Through …

Spiraling in control: structures and mechanisms of the Hsp104 disaggregase

J Shorter, DR Southworth - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Hsp104 is a hexameric AAA+ ATPase and protein disaggregase found in yeast, which
couples ATP hydrolysis to the dissolution of diverse polypeptides trapped in toxic …

BioAFMviewer: An interactive interface for simulated AFM scanning of biomolecular structures and dynamics

R Amyot, H Flechsig - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
We provide a stand-alone software, the BioAFMviewer, which transforms biomolecular
structures into the graphical representation corresponding to the outcome of atomic force …

Simulation atomic force microscopy for atomic reconstruction of biomolecular structures from resolution-limited experimental images

R Amyot, A Marchesi, CM Franz, I Casuso… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) can visualize the dynamics of single biomolecules under
near-physiological conditions. However, the scanning tip probes only the molecular surface …

The protein disulfide isomerase family: from proteostasis to pathogenesis

M Matsusaki, S Kanemura, M Kinoshita, YH Lee… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
In mammalian cells, nearly one-third of proteins are inserted into the endoplasmic reticulum
(ER), where they undergo oxidative folding and chaperoning assisted by approximately 20 …

Unmasking AlphaFold to integrate experiments and predictions in multimeric complexes

C Mirabello, B Wallner, B Nystedt, S Azinas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Since the release of AlphaFold, researchers have actively refined its predictions and
attempted to integrate it into existing pipelines for determining protein structures. These …

Protein dynamics by the combination of high-speed AFM and computational modeling

H Flechsig, T Ando - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) allows direct observation of biological
molecules in dynamic action. However, HS-AFM has no atomic resolution. This article …